How to ride New Zealand’s Timber Trail without blowing your budget — or busting a gut
Ancient podocarp forest, soaring suspension bridges and oodles of history make the Timber Trail one of New Zealand’s best cycling experiences.
Read moreAncient podocarp forest, soaring suspension bridges and oodles of history make the Timber Trail one of New Zealand’s best cycling experiences.
Read moreTwo years ago a massive slip wiped out a highway and turned Mangamuka into a ghost town. Now it’s happened again.
Read moreThe island boasts spectacular beaches, hot springs, raucous birdlife and lush forest — and it’s just half an hour from Auckland by plane.
Read moreWhere experiencing one of New Zealand’s wildest places doesn’t mean you have to go without fine food and lodgings.
Read moreVillage’s creator had a “serious flirtation” with an island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf before choosing a bay near his home in Wales instead.
Read moreWhat does it mean to be a New Zealander of Dutch descent? And what if the country of my ancestors decides I no longer belong?
Read moreAn ambitious ecological restoration project aims to return a small corner of New Zealand to the way it was before humans arrived.
Read moreOne of New Zealand’s newest dual-use tramping and mountain bike trails, the 85km-long Old Ghost Road is also one of the most spectacular.
Read moreHow to climb Northland’s highest peaks — well, some of them anyway — and where to find them.
Read moreA practical guide to Aotearoa’s 10th Great Walk and the tragic story behind it.
Read moreThe 70km Queen Charlotte Track offers fabulous views — and plenty of options for walking in comfort — where land meets sea in the Marlborough Sounds.
Read moreA global pandemic, iwi-led Covid checkpoints, Waitangi Day festivities, politics, record-breaking rainfall, floods and fires — 2020 had it all.
Read moreThe author encounters takahē, kleptomaniac weka and naked trampers on New Zealand’s longest Great Walk.
Read moreWhat drives more than 1000 people a year to walk the length of New Zealand? I decided to find out.
Read moreSir Hek Busby spent a lifetime building bridges – over rivers, between peoples, and across the mighty Pacific Ocean.
Read moreBill Guest only left North Hokianga once and reckons it was only luck that brought him back alive. The 96-year-old veteran shares some of the horror, and humour, of World War II.
Read moreRangimārie Mules and Jared Hiakita didn’t want to start their life together shackled to a giant mortgage. Their solution was a tiny house on a trailer.
Read moreThree days of wildly beautiful coastline — and chances are you won’t have to share it with anyone.
Read moreIn the bush west of Kerikeri, a small town in northern New Zealand, a Korean spiritual leader says he is building a global headquarters for an organisation of 100 million members.
Read moreA selection of my favourite images from Waitangi Day, the anniversary of the signing of New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, taken since 2010.
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